Authorities with the Tarrant County medical examiner's officer began to remove the bodies from the mortuary this afternoon.

The owner of a Fort Worth mortuary where police say they found several unattended and unidentified bodies Tuesday insists it’s all a misunderstanding.

“We’ve done nothing wrong,” said Dondre Johnson, who runs the Johnson Family Mortuary. “This is a funeral home. This is where we keep bodies.”

Johnson said his landlord called police this morning after finding seven bodies inside the building on Handley Drive in East Fort Worth. He said some of the dead are already embalmed and in caskets, one of them bound for Nairobi, Kenya.

“Things happen in life,” he said of the investigation. “Pray for us.”

Dondre’s brother Derrick, who says he runs a limousine business, said the bodies were well-preserved, but a foul odor emanated from the building.

Police say the owner of the building asked the renters to leave two weeks ago. This morning, the owner checked on the property and found the business had been left unattended with multiple dead bodies inside, authorities say.

Officers are still searching the funeral home, and officials from the medical examiner’s office began removing the bodies this afternoon. The charge on the search warrant is abuse of corpse, said Sgt. Raymond Bush, a Fort Worth police spokesman.

Bush said it’s too early in the investigation to release the condition of the bodies or how long they were left unattended. The electricity and air conditioning were still on inside the building. The main concern at this point is to return the bodies to the families.

“That’s our priority to find closure for the families,” Bush said.

Any family members concerned about their loved ones’ remains should call the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office at 817-920-5700, Ext. 5.

A couple was arrested Monday in South Carolina in connection with the slaying and robbery of a Parker County man and the aggravated robbery of another, reports TheFort Worth Star-Telegram.

Police believe the two were involved in the killing of Marion Lee Brown, 53, of Parker County, who owned a business in Fort Worth. His burned car was found May 22, and his body pulled from a lake in Shreveport the next day.

Police arrested Brandon Bernard Daniels, 30, and Damonica Laniesha Evans, 25, Monday in Florence County, South Carolina on capital murder and aggravated robbery warrants. Daniels said he has family in the area, according to police.

Another man told Fort Worth police he was robbed by a woman he met through an online escort ad. When he met her at an address she provided, they talked, and a man armed with a shotgun forced the man to lie on the floor. The woman went through his pockets and took cash and two credit cards while the man threatened the victim to not tell police.

Police believe this is the same couple suspected in Brown’s slaying.

“It would appear at this time that the two offenses were committed in the same fashion,” Fort Worth homicide Sgt. Joe Loughman told the Star-Telegram. “It is unknown why Mr. Brown was killed and the other victim was allowed to live.”

The man who was accused of igniting a bag of Molotov cocktails and throwing it at the door of Senator Wendy Davis’ Fort Worth office pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced to seven years Monday morning.

According to a release from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office Cedric Carmond Steele, 42, was sentenced to 7 years in prison in exchange for his guilty plea. Steele faced 20 years in prison.

On March 20, 2012, Steele lit a bag of the cocktails and threw them at the outer door of the senator’s office at the 2400 block of of West 7th St. A small fire was quickly extinguished and no employees of the office were hurt.

Steele is homeless and has a history of mental illness, according to a press release from the DA’s office.

The scene outside the North Side Outlaws bar after Sunday night's fatal shooting

Updated at 4 p.m. February 17 by Robert Wilonsky: Fort Worth police say Sylvia Salazar was an innocent bystander.

“The investigation revealed that an altercation occurred within the bar and shots were fired,” says Officer Sharron Neal, a spokesperson for the department. “The victim was not involved in the altercation, but was struck by a bullet during this incident.”

Updated at 6 a.m. February 17 by Robert Wilonsky: Fort Worth police remain at the North Side Outlaws bar in Fort Worth, where 56-year-old Sylvia Salazar was shot and killed Sunday night and four other men were injured. The foursome are hospitalized, police say, and in stable condition.

Police say the shooting occurred around 8:45 p.m. Sunday at the bar located at 115 NW 25th Street. There’s been a fight — over what, it remains unclear — and then a suspect opened fire. One of the victims then ran to the Cadillac Bar seeking refuge and help. Authorities initially responded to that address, which is why initial reports listed the Cadillac Bar as the scene of the crime.

As of this posting, the suspect remains at large, though police say they believe it’s possible one of the hospitalized victims could have more information concerning the shooter.

Fort Worth police are looking for a man who they say robbed a bank Tuesday and escaped by bicycle.

About 9:30 a.m., a man police described as between 45 and 55 years old, wearing a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans, walked into the Wells Fargo in the 1600 block of South University Drive near Interstate 30. The man said, “This is a robbery; give me all of your money,” police said.

He then pulled the stocking cap he was wearing over the upper portion of his face and gave the tellers a bag. He fled north with an undisclosed amount of money on a silver cruiser-style bicycle.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective WS Thompson at 817-989-3317 or Crime Stoppers at 817-469-TIPS (8477).

According to the Star-Telegram, John St. Angelo, 49, was armed with a .22-caliber rifle on New Year's Eve when officers surrounded a home in the 6800 block of Permian Lane starting at 11 a.m.

Police had received a call earlier that day that St. Angelo, a suspect in the stabbing of his ex-wife, Suzanne Parsons the day before, was holed up in the home. For most of the afternoon, officers attempted to negotiate with the suspect using a public address system and began pumping tear gas into the home. St. Angelo fired at officers, an arrest warrant affidavit said.

He then went to the back of the home and fired several times at three veteran SWAT officers.

Shortly before 5 p.m., St. Angelo surrendered to police, who believed the man had self-inflicted wounds. He was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital for treatment. In his interview with detectives, St. Angelo said he fired at officers because of the tear gas and “wanted them to leave me alone.”

The Haslet man remains in the Tarrant County Jail, and is charged with murder and three counts of attempted capital murder. Bail is set at $1.6 million.

Suzanne Parsons

Parsons and St. Angelo's divorce was final Dec. 16, but the woman had filed for divorce and a protective order against her ex-husband in the spring.

Witnesses told police that they heard screams the day police say Parsons was slain at her workplace. They tried to help her but the door was locked, The Star-Telegram reports. A co-worker unlocked the door with a key and saw the ex-husband standing over his ex-wife and stabbing her, according to an affidavit. The co-workers then fled from the scene.

A 3-year-old boy from Fort Worth is in the hospital after his mother reportedly stabbed him Saturday night, police said.

Police found the child bleeding heavily when they responded to a welfare call around 8 p.m. on the 3200 block of Saint Juliet Street. The boy’s mother, Nadia Douglas, 33, told officers she had stabbed her son, police spokesman Sgt. Kelly Peel said in an email.

The boy was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center for medical care and his mother was arrested at the scene.

It took 46 minutes for a Tarrant County jury to convict a Fort Worth gangster this week of capital murder in the slaying of a young couple last year.

Joe Sessums Jr., 22, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the May 2012 killings of Fabian Guerrero and Diane Guerra.

Prosecutors said Guerrero, Guerra, and a group of friends went to a Hooters restaurant in southwest Fort Worth the night of the slaying. Guerrero and his group were believed to be part of a gang that rivaled Sessums’.

A member of Sessums’ gang was working at the Hooters and summoned a crew when he saw Guerrero.

According to prosecutors, Guerrero’s group drove away from the restaurant in a Toyota Camry headed east on Interstate 20, then south on Interstate 35W. A tan Chevrolet Tahoe pulled alongside shortly after the Camry exited at Sycamore School Road. Sessums opened fire from the SUV, firing at least 14 shots into the Camry, according to a release from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office.

The Camry crashed into a retaining wall alongside the freeway, then came to a stop in front of a church parking lot, the release said.

Guerrero, who was driving, and Guerra, in the front passenger seat, were fatally shot. Two passengers in the back seat were wounded, while a fifth person in the car escaped unharmed.

About a month later, Fort Worth police arrested Sessums, Gabriel “Lil Shadow” Cerda, and Jose “Stretch” De La Rosa in connection with the slayings. Sessums admitted to following Guerrero and the group and to being the shooter. Sessums told police he threw the handgun used in the shootings into the Trinity River.

“Fabian and Diane were much loved by their family and friends, and their death left a huge hole in their heart,” Prosecutor Tamla Ray said. “Hopefully, this verdict will allow their loved ones to feel some amount of peace.”